Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Conjoined twins, Maria and Teresa Tapia, 19-months old, were separated successfully after a 20-hour operation by a team of 45 health professionals. The procedure was performed at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. The twin sisters are from the Dominican Republic. The two girls were joined at ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease characterized by high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is caused by the patient's immune system attacking and destroying the cells in their pancreas that produce the hormone insulin, which regulates blood glucose levels. Surprisingly, little is known about the ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has pinpointed a gene that confers diabetes susceptibility in obese mice. Published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, this study also shows that its protein tomosyn-2 acts as a brake on insulin secretion from the pancreas. "It's too early for us ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Researchers in Japan have discovered how a patient's neural stem cells could be used as an alternative source of the beta cells needed for a regenerative treatment for diabetes. The research, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, reveals how harvesting stem cells could overcome a lack of beta cell transplants from ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
In a study published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on October 6th, a research team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified a gene called tomosyn-2 that confers diabetes susceptibility in obese mice and acts as an inhibitor on insulin secretion from the pancreas. Alan Attie, lead author ...
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